Drafted in the second round by Dallas in 1969, the 6-foot, 183-pound Flowers had an undistinguished career in the NFL as a safety with the Cowboys (1969-71) and New York Giants (1971-73). He then played one season in the World Football League (1975) before going to law school at Alabama.
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AND BOB HAYES? YEP!
Gatlin was in the N.O. Saints camp this week.
ran 4.29 40m, 4.34 on grass.
But, like most sprinters, can't catch and can't cut. Sprinters know how to run in a straight line, some can turn left here or there but football is about agility. Try to 'run tall' on the football field and you are going to get your head knocked off.
Michael Bates was, i believe, the bronze medallist in the 100 in Barcelona. Also a noted NFL kick returner. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You forgot to mention:
Christian Peter - raped Nebraska co-ed
Lyle Alzado - poster child for steroids
Bill Romanowski - poster child for steroids, drug pusher, battered teammate in roid rage and ended teammate's career
Todd Marinovich - convicted, illegal drugs
Barrett Robbins - convicted, illegal drugs
Art Schlichter (sp.) - convicted, gambling, racketeering, illegal drugs
Sebastian Janakowski - convicted, illegal drugs
Jumbo Elliott - bar fighting
A majority of early NFL owners were known gamblers. Some were even tied to organized crime. One time Dallas Cowboy owner Clint Murchison Jr., Kansas City Chief owner Lamar Hunt (son of oilman H.L. Hunt Jr.), Cleveland Brown/Baltimore Raven owner Art Modell, New Orleans Saints owner John Mecom Jr. (who had very close ties to Mafia boss Carlos Marcello, a key player in bringing a team in New Orleans), Chicago/St. Louis/Arizona Cardinal owner Charles Bidwell (who was a bootlegger and an associate of Al Capone), and Philadelphia Eagle owner DeBenneville "Bert" Bell (who had ties to the East Coast Mafia) all were known to have been gamblers and bet on football (some even their own teams). Carroll Rosenbloom, one time owner of the Baltimore Colts, not only bet on his team, but also altered the outcome of a game because of it.
Oddly enough, it was this very game that legitimized football for the television networks. It has been called the greatest game ever played: the 1958 NFL championship game. Rosenbloom’s Colts were playing the New York Giants, who were 3 ½ to 5 ½ point underdogs. Rosenbloom laid down $1 million on his boys to win. [8] The Colts were losing until the last seven seconds, when Colts kicker Steve Myhra kicked a field goal to tie the game at 17-17 and send it into overtime. In overtime, the Colts marched 80 yards down the field to get to the Giants eight-yard line – easy field goal territory. But they never kicked. Instead Rosenbloom, knowing the game was won but his bet lost with a field goal, had his general manager force Coach Ewbank to go in for the touchdown. Final score: Colts 23, Giants 17, which covered the point spread, and Rosenbloom's money. [Sports gamblers generally bet not just on the victor, but on a particular "spread," or margin of victory.]
Players, too, have been tempted by the bookmaker. Several star players of the 1950s-1960s were known to have gambled, and some to have fixed games. Bookmaker/Gambler Don Dawson has admitted that during those two decades, he had personally been involved in fixing no fewer than 32 NFL games. [9] Washington Redskin quarterback Sammy Baugh, Pittsburgh/Detroit quarterback Bobby Layne, and Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson, were alleged to have gambled (and perhaps shave points), but were never charged or convicted of a crime. Green Bay Packer great Paul Horning and Detroit Lions star Alex Karras were not so fortunate.
On the January 16, 1963 edition of the NBC evening news program The Huntley-Brinkley Report, Detroit Lions star defensive tackle Alex Karras admitted that he had bet on football games in which he played. A national scandal erupted. It was quickly quelled on April 17, 1963 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle indefinitely suspended Alex Karras and Paul Horning (who had bet on games in which he played as well) and fined 5 other Detroit Lions $2,000 each for betting on games in which they did not play. Rozelle also announced at that time that he had evidence that several other players around the League were gambling on the NFL, and that these players had been "reprimanded, but not fined.
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1634/pg2/
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You are correct, almost.
Michael Bates earned a bronze in the 200 in Barcelona.
He was a very succesfull kick returner in the NFL, several returns for TD's. Mostly with the Panthers.